Bottle



(No Model.)

B. H. THORNTON.

BOTTLE. No. 565,187. Patented Aug. 4, 1896 j 1 x W 3- 1 i 2 1; 6 a Z2 13; 2

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BENJAMIN H. THORNTON, OF THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,187, dated August 4, 1896. Application filed December 27, 1895 Serial No. 573,457. (No model.)

To all! whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN H. THORN- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thompsonville, Hartford county, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate generally to the combination, with a closed-top bottle, of a spout and gravity-valve, adapting the bottle upon being inverted to deliver its contents through the spout in. small quantities and at the desired point, the object being to provide a receptacle also into which the air cannot obtain access through the spout when resting upon its base.

The invention consistsin the construction and arrangement as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims, and is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a vertical sectional view showing the valve upon its seat. Fig. II is the same with the bottle inverted and showing a changed position of the valve. Fig. 111 is a top plan view of a bottle with the cover and valve removed. Fig. IV is a vertical section of a part of a bottle and showing a modification, and Fig. V is a partial sectional elevation of a closed tube screwed to the bottleneck.

Referring to the drawings, A is a bottle having fitted over its neck a and secured thereto by cement or other convenient means a tube B, which prolongs the neck of the bottle to leave the top of the neck proper a valveseat within said tube B.

The upper and open end of tube 13, and the mouth through which the bottle is filled, is closed by a screw-cap D.

Filling tube B snugly, but so as to move therein by gravity, between the valve-seat formed by the end of neck a and the inner surface of screw-cap D, is a valve 0 of a diameter in line with the axis of tube B, less than the length of said tube in its clear space, so that the valve has room to reciprocate between the screw-cap and its seat.

Intermediate to the inner surface of the screw-cap and valve-seat, and near the valveseat, is the opening to a spout F.

The spout is inclined at a sharp angle to the neck, and is prolonged to have its free en d nearly on a level with the top of the screw cap D, while the edge of the port or opening in tube B is flush with the inner surface of said tube.

When the empty bottle is filled, the valve 0 dropped in tube 13, and the screw-cap run on to close the end of said tube, the valve rests in the position shown in Fig. I to close both the neck a of the bottle and the opening to the spout, thus shutting oil all air from the interior of the bottle.

When it is desired to deliver a portion of the contents of the bottle, it is inverted, as shown in Fig. II, to cause the valve to move to uncover both the neck of the bottle and the opening to spout F, and thus give exit through the spout for the contents.

A bottle thus constructed does away with the necessity of removing the screw-cover every time it is desired to remove any of the material in the bottle, with the consequent liability of mislaying the top, and of also admitting an undesirable amount of air; but the principal advantage of a bottle so constructed is that the contents in minute quantities can be deposited on the exact spot desired, and is useful for mixing drugs or placing them upon the druggists scales, as well as for depositing cement, a tooth-wash upon the brush, and. many other uses too numerous to mention.

The bottle is of glass, the tube and cap of metal, and the valve of glass; but the material of all or any of these parts may be changed, as required by the use to which the receptacle is to be appliedas, for instance, to contain mercury the spout, as well as the bottle and all other parts, would be con structed of wood.

As shown in Fig. IV, from the lower face of valve G is extended, to project down through neck aand into the body of the bottle, awire or sliver h, for the purpose of breaking by the reciprocation of the valve and by its consequent motion back and forth in the bottle any arching of the contents of a powdery nature which would otherwise prevent it from entering the neck of the bottle. Said wire it also supplies an ever-present means of keeping the spout clear, being of a size adapted to be pushed through the spout.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The within improved bottle comprising a body and neck, an outside tube secured to the neck to prolong said neck and leave the end of the neck proper as avalve-seat within the tube, a screw-cap closing the free end of the tube, a valve within said tube filling the same, and adapted to rest upon and close the neck and to reciprocate in the tube between the valve-seat and the screw-cap, and a spout attached to the tube and communicating with its interior at a point intermediate to the valve-seat and screw-cap, and adapted to coinmunicate with the interior of the bottle by the changed position of the valve upon the inversion of the bottle, all substantially as shown and described.

2. The within-described improved bottle,

comprising a tube attached to the outside of the neck, leaving the mouth of the bottle as a valve-seat, a stopper closing the mouth of said tube, a sliding valve .within said tube normally resting upon and closing the mouth of the bottle, and filling the tube, with a space between its top and the bottom of the stopper, and a spout combined with the tube to communicate with its interior, and adapted to have its port closed by the valve when upon its seat, and opened when the valve rests upon the stopper, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of neck a, tube B, cap D, spout F, and reciprocating valve 0 all arranged and operating as set forth, with Wire or sliver h attached to valve 0 to extend down and into the body of the bottle A, for the purpose described.

BENJAMIN H. THORNTON.

W'itnesses:

R. F. HYDE, LYMAN H. PERKINS. 

